Re: Challenge response systems

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: Challenge response systems
Date: 14:17 on 12 Aug 2006
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:10:39PM +0200, Ann Barcomb wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> >Challenge response systems. Particularly those hooked up to mailing lists.
> >I'm not sure whether I want to kill the authors first, or the users.
> 
> The bug is in the mailing list software, which didn't unsubscribe the
> idiot and ban her/him from ever joining the list again.

How could it? The backscatter went direct to me. No (hateful) mailing list
software is aware that the hateful challenge response system ever sent
any e-mail.

A part of me is wondering just how much mess one of these hateful pieces
of challenge response software could get its luser into if a (hateful)
header faking worm (inevitably running on the most hateful OS out there)
by sending a mail "from" the luser to some "interesting" e-mail address.

Nicholas Clark
There's stuff above here

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